Joni Mitchell was mostly right when she sang: “You do not know what you have until it leaves.” But in case Vancouver CanaxEveryone knows that they have Kuinn Hughes “And he is still here.”
Regardless of how this season is unfolding for Canucks, on the western coast there will be fear about the future Hughes, which will decide next summer in order to agree on a long-term extension in Vancouver or try to join his brothers in the National Hockey League in New Jersey.
This uncertainty only increases gratitude for what Hughes does at night, as on Wednesday (and most nights), when the defender of Kanax perfectly installed the first two goals for his team, and then deftly scored one, since Vancouver dismantled “Calgary Flamm” 8-1 in the future pre-season.
Hughes was easily the best player on ice in Kalgary, although there were a lot of strong performances in Vancouver.
With the help of his captain Hedliner, which will be close to the line of the first night of Canucks against Flames next Thursday, the team even more raised its intensity and urgency and checked a bunch of boxes for what the new head coach Adam Full wants.
Kanax played quickly and aggressively. They constantly became defenders in a hurry and were outstanding in special teams. Verkhny Winger Brock Boeser scored the first goal in the prolon from the brilliant transition of Hughes and the central center Elias Pettersson He continued his strong pre -season season and made him look like 2023, when he scored in one timer on a power game, which passed 2 in 4.
The murder in Vancouver passed 6-B-6 and brought a couple of short targets. Full centers of the NHL ATU Rati and Max Sassson scored to put exclamation signs on their auditions, and the protection looks close to the set, although Derek Forborn He played only one shift in the third period and, perhaps, will need to be replaced.
Now, with a score of 3: 2, in the pre -season and construction pulse, Canucks play their last Tuneup on Friday at home against Edmonton Oilers before going on a tour of 82 games next week.
Foote generated a little chatter home in Vancouver, when he missed the promise of the forwards of Braeden Cootes and Jonathan Lekkerimaki, along with the veteran -Winger Evander Kane from what otherwise was a complete, NHL -line of Cancks.
But, as expected, the line of Kaine-Kuts-Kuts-Kuts-Kuts, which was practiced on Tuesday in Vancouver, will play together on Friday against Edmonton in the last chance (at least to the pre-season) to show that they belong to the list that will be set up on Monday.
Young, promising defenders Elias Petersson (younger) and Tom Willander could also get the last appearance. At least one of them will play if force can not. Canucks could also choose the rest of the veteran of Tyler Mayers, who looked good at 19:17 on Wednesday on Wednesday after receiving a slight injury for several days in the pre -season season.
It is definitely similar Victor ManciniThe prospective component of the package of assets that Canucks received from New York Rangers last season in the JT Miller trade, created a team. The defender brought the skaters in Vancouver from 22:28 Ice Time, which included 5:41 in a penalty and 2:54 Power Play. Mancini also blocked three pictures.
About six feet and 229 pounds, with the offensive instruments and outstanding mobility, the 23-year-old football player seems to be ideal for the requirements of foot that the defenders aggressively close the opponents and raise the ice on the attack.
“Personally, I really like it,” Mancini said about the game plan. “As a person who wants to use his skating skating as much as possible, to be aggressive and attack the goals, but also on the other hand, tearing the pucks and joining this second layer (at a hurry) … I think that this is really important, and it was fun.”
“He is a sample,” said Ryan Johnson, assistant general director of Canucks during an interview for a break on Sportsnet. “He is 6-4, he can ride skates, he is strong, he is a beast (on) icy and in the gym, and I still think that his game is developing. We saw a lot of wonderful things in the Colder Cup (in AHL last spring). But I still think that his ceiling … We have not seen him yet. So we are obviously very excited that perhaps we were a forgotten piece in very large trade.
It is also the pre -season season for judges and linear members who again adapt to the speed of NHL and reaction time. Therefore, it is clear that some calls miss, for example, the ground footage, at least offsite at the only purpose of the flame. But the missing serial offender Martin sleeped, which he found on Boeser on the open ice in the second period, was more difficult to understand.
Kanax did not miss this, although. A few minutes later, when the post -relic in the Vancouver zone united around Mancini and Blake Coleman, the Forobed grabbed the sleeping and threw it onto the ice. He sleeped immediately left the game, and the Forobed played only six shifts.
The worst result of any pre-season trauma game, and, unfortunately, both sprinkled and force, seemed to suffer.
One of the four Canucks, which cleared the refusal on Tuesday, the day after the team split its pre-season list 17, 32-year-old apprentice Joe Labat returned to the fourth line of Vancouver in Calgary. The Minnesotanets with six feet five, the initially important choice in Vancouver 14 years ago, registered two shots and one blow during 9:32 Ice time and again showed some presence in cleanliness.
So what gives? Well, now that he cleared refusals, the labat can spend up to 10 games or 30 days with the Canes, without requiring refusal for the second time. Perhaps Foot and G.M. Patrick Alvin, as the idea of ​​Labata as a depth for ahead in its composition, believe that the organization has more chances to keep it, hiding it in the tsunami when the players refused this week, and do not put it for a couple of weeks in the regular season. Just a thought.
Boeser for journalists in Kalgary: “I thought we worked very hard tonight. We had a good game plan, and we talked about our level of effort and diligently reloaded and were aggressive. And I thought we did it well tonight. This should give us a lot of confidence. I think this shows that we are making efforts and determination, I think that it really shows what we can do, and we think we can create. ”
DEBRUSK-PETTERSSON-BOESER; O'Connor-Blueger-Garland; Labate-Raty-Sherwood; Bains-Sasson-Carlsson.
Hughes-Khronek; M. Peterson-Mayers; Forrtort-Mancini
